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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

Valerie June

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Valerie June
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: January 10
Banjoist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Jackson
Tennessee
Valerie June Hockett
Absorbed
Music
Love

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If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!
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I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.
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They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.
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I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.
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When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.
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Whatever people are doing, they're probably going to be doing it five years from now. You have your banker, your general store runner, the principal of the school, and things of that sort. It's nice to see that, and to get old with other people.
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If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.
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I just have to do prayers and meditation and affirmations to myself as I go throughout the day, and that's the only way I'm able to make it through some days.
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Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.
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I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.
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Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.
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I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.
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My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.
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As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.
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The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.
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I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
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I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
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I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.
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Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.
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